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To: cicero's_son; wardaddy
David Irving's biorgraphy of Goebbels shows the fine line that the Propaganda Minister had to tread with respect to Christianity. Many of the leading Nazis were lapsed Catholics who despised the Church. Their ultimate goal appears to have been to replace the Judeo-Christian religions with something akin to racist deism.

Hitler was not -- so it is reported -- an "Odinist", and had little patience with the neo-pagans, probably regarding them on the same level as the people who dress up as Klingons at sci-fi conventions.

The major obstacle to the Nazi agenda was, in my opinion, the German people themselves. Had Hitler and Goebbels explicitly stated their anti-Christian agenda, the Nazi party would have been unable to co-opt the "genuine" rightists into the anti-Bolshevic alliance of the Weimar period. The fact that the ruling circle of the NSDAP had to keep their real feelings under wraps (with plans to "settle scores" after the war), has led enemies of Christianity (such as W. Clinton and some on this forum) to conflate the NSDAP and the Church. These people mistakenly take the Nazis' advertising campaign, aimed at traditionally-minded Germans, at face falue. They ignore the actual "product" that was delivered, which includes the persecution of Christian groups and ministers. That is as bogus as conflating the platform of the Democrat Party with the Constitution.

49 posted on 01/10/2002 12:21:40 PM PST by Goetz_von_Berlichingen
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To: Goetz_von_Berlichingen
” These people mistakenly take the Nazis' advertising campaign, aimed at traditionally-minded Germans, at face falue. They ignore the actual "product" that was delivered, which includes the persecution of Christian groups and ministers.”

Excellent point.

The most heinous regimes of the 20th century advertised themselves as the opposite of what they actually were. The Communists in Russia during the Revolution promised peace, land and freedom to the Russian peasants. Of course we know what they really delivered. And of course, let’s not forget that Clinton promised the “most ethical administration in history.”

75 posted on 01/11/2002 9:24:55 AM PST by moneyrunner
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